Corra Group will be attending the National Association of Professional Background Screeners Convention in Denver, Colorado. The 2014 event is scheduled for Sunday, October 19th, through Tuesday, October 21st. The Annual Conference offers a range of educational seminars as well as the exhibit hall where the latest products and services for are put on display.

“The NAPBS is a great annual event,” said Corra Group Co-Founder, Nick Gustavson. For any company conducting background checks, it’s a must. The classes that are offered help Corra Group stay current with any new procedural guidelines from the FCRA and other governing bodies as well as any legal rulings that warrant in-depth discussion.

“Corra Group provides background checks for employment screening purposes to a wide variety of industries,” said Gustavson. “Some industries, such as healthcare, finance, defense, and trucking are subject to specific compliance mandates, and we want to stay current with regard to any issues that may affect these sectors.”

Gustavson pointed out that much is packed into the three day event. He noted that he and his business partner, Corra Group Co-Founder, Gordon Basichis, are on the fast track throughout the course of the show.

“It’s a lot of work, but it is also a lot of fun,” said Gustavson. “There is a high energy atmosphere, and while we are there for learning and sourcing, it is always great to catch up with our friends in the industry. We are a Los Angeles based background screening company. But we service clients nationally and globally, and this is our chance to get together and talk shop with our vendors and researchers for a couple of days.”

Studies show workplace violence has been on the increase for a number of years now. In some industries in particular the incidents of workplaces violence have multiplied at alarming rates. The healthcare industry is one such industry where healthcare workers, nurses, attendants, are submitted to everything from verbal epithets to physical violence.

Now we have a new twist on workplace violence. Beheading. Following the gruesome beheading, in Oklahoma, it appears another employee wants to saw the heads off his fellow co-workers.

According to the New York Daily News…”An Oklahoma ISIS terrorist wannabe vowed to behead his co-worker because she was a Christian, police said — just a day after another Oklahoma man decapitated a colleague during a bloody rampage on his former workplace.

Police arrested 30-year-old Jacob Mugambi Muriithi Friday on a terrorism complaint. His co-worker at Bellevue Nursing Home told officers he threatened to behead her in the name of ISIS.”‘

So we have to start asking, just who are we hiring here in a nation with its fair share of societal problems? Besides past criminal, will background checks reveal more about these apparent nut jobs who permeate our national work force? That appears to be the case with Alton Nolen, who did have a criminal history. Or are these employees undetectable in the majority of cases? Worse, still, how many more incidents like this will we see, taking workplace violence to the extreme?

The bottom line is that healthcare workers really don’t need to subject themselves to this type of treatment, either from their patients who fellow employees. There comes a time when one too many incidents like this, or even on a lesser scale, cause our healthcare workers to dread coming to the job. If there is ultimately a reduction in people who want to enter the healthcare industry, the nation will suffer. As much of our population ages, this is one industry that needs to grow, accordingly. And not decline.